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For mountaineering feats they often use scarpe da gatto, or cat shoes, made of string soles with felt uppers, which are more lasting than the Pyrenean straw sandals. The Gavetta, or mess tin of the Alpini, is very practical. It is of the same shape as ours, but a little deeper, and has a reserve of spirit at the base and a spirit lamp, enabling the Alpini to make coffee or heat their wine.
He's my consulting engineer." "That cuts no ice. I'm doing some work for him for him; understand? It's not for you. He gave me the job not you. After what you've said to me here, I wouldn't take a hundred-thousand-dollar job from you, not if I was walking around on my uppers. Understand?" "But but-" Blake's anger burst out in volcanic rage. "That's it, straight!
It was recognizable as the form of Red Hoss Shackleford. Red Hoss seemed numbed rather than unconscious. Afterward Bill Tilghman in recounting the affair claimed that Red Hoss, when discovered, was practically nude clear down to his shoes, which being of the variety known as congress gaiters had elastic uppers to hug the ankles.
Upon collar work, and in sewing boot uppers, the rate seldom rises above 1,200 with advantage. If the machines be speeded too high in any trade, the operator never uses the excess, and it only proves a drawback. I seen the heaviest and hardest kind of navy boots stitched at 1,500 to the minute upon Singer's lock-stitch machines.
At last the furniture began to go, then the plate, then ail the priceless bric-a-brac. Piece by piece it disappeared until the apartments were empty and he had squandered almost all of the $40,350 arising from the sales. The servants were paid off, the apartments relinquished, and he was beginning to know what it meant to be "on his uppers."
They're all gone in the uppers, and Billy's are too big, even if they were here, but they're off to school on him. I'll tell you what Mary, hurry up wid that sock o' Ted's and we'll draw them on him over Bugsey's boots and purtind they're overstockin's, and I'll carry him all the way so's not to dirty them."
"And had a sort of a catch-look, a kind of a slant in his eye, didn't he?" supplemented Pickert; "and was smooth-shaven and on the whole rather decent-looking chap, just getting on his uppers and not quite. Ain't that it?" "Yes, maybe, I don't recklemember everyting about him. Vell vell ain't dot funny? But he vasn't a dead beat no, I don't tink so. An' he stole it?
We suddenly realized that our only safety depended on the locating of that old printing station. Our shoes were so wet and our feet so cold that the leather burned before we knew it; but, as a real matter of fact, we didn't realize how badly they were burned until an hour later, when the shoes began to crack away in bits and the uppers to rip open along the seams. "We reached the great snowbanks.
Before eleven o'clock Mis' Mayor Uppers tapped at my back door, with two deep-dish cherry pies in a basket, and a row of her delicate, feathery sponge cakes and a jar of pineapple and pie-plant preserves "to chink in." She drew a deep breath and stood looking about the kitchen. "Throw off your things an' help, Mis' Uppers," Calliope admonished her, one hand on the cellar door.
I stopped him and asked him what ailed his feet. He said they were sore, and all cracked open, and hurt him so that he could hardly walk. "Come round to my office and let me see them," said I. "I am going to take these shoes to the binder's," he had a package of "uppers" in his hand "and must be back in twenty minutes, or Mr. Maxwell says he will give me the strap."
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